Mark Haney wrote:
Well, I decided to take the plunge and install KDE4 based on the
directions at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml.
The installation went well (with a re-install of qt4 due to a missing
use flag) and it was on to restarting the system so I could start
mucking with the new interface. And that's where I hit a snag.
In the URL above, the directions say to change /etc/conf.d/xdm, the
DISPLAYMANAGER variable to kdm-4.0. Every time I tried that, I got just
xdm instead as a login screen and then, after log in, got my same KDE3.5
desktop. There are no other directions on this page, so now I don't
know where to go from here.
What now?
I've done more testing and still no KDE4 running. I realized I had
/etc/rc.conf edited to start kde3.5 as well, so I changed it, but
there's a catch to this. If I edit DISPLAYMANAGER to 'KDE-4.0' I can't
set it that way in rc.conf, which looks at /etc/X11/Sessions for it's
info (apparently). An ls of that directory doesn't show 'kde-4.0' it
only has 'kde-4'. So, when I edited rc.conf for 'kde-4', I still got
the old school XDM session, but I got an error about the ~/.kde symlink
being wrong. I assume that's progress, but I don't know. I still don't
get KDE4 on my system, so I'm stuck. Anyone got any ideas?
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